High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Francisco de Zurbaran (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbaran gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. He was born at Fuente de Cantos in Extremadura, the son of Luis Zurbaran, a haberdasher, and his wife, Isabel Marquez. In childhood he set about imitating objects with charcoal. In 1614 his father sent him to Seville to apprentice for three years with Pedro Diaz de Villanueva, an artist of whom very little is known. It is unknown whether Zurbaran had the opportunity to copy the paintings of Michelangelo da Caravaggio; at any rate, he adopted Caravaggio's realistic use of chiaroscuro. The painter who may have had the greatest influence on his characteristically severe compositions was Juan Sanchez Cotan.

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